I have a Toshiba Satellite L505D-GS6000 it had windows7 on it when I bought it new. Needless to say windows just ran too slow. The only Ubuntu distro that would boot up was Karmic 9.10.

I had to append the phrase acpi=off to get the live ISO to boot I had to type acpi=off after the word splash. I saw it would boot so I installed it as the only OS on this computer.

Now when I boot up I am hitting the power button once and the back on again to get to the grub. I hit the E key use my arrows down to the word splash type acpi=off. Then hit CTRL X to boot up.

How do I put this permanently into Grub2 . I just don't know how? Any input would great thank you!

This could be distro specific, but on Debian (and therefore I guss *buntu) I think you would do that by editing the value of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub (then run update-grub).

Evo2.

Are you referring to grub 2 or grub one? The reason I ask this comp was particular to 9.10. Its the only thing I could figure out how to get to boot up?

Ok I pulled that up but I am not sure where to type acpi=off at, is it at one of these spots?


GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT="10"
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

Not sure where to put this entry at? Any one know? Thanks...

put it here dude

then run

as root

Keep the quotes there.

Ok how did you do that? I will, wanna know!
As for editing I update the grub and it will not save it. When I pull it up again acpi=off is gone. I still have to boot up the same way. Thanks

Edit the file as root w/ gedit and save. Then update GRUB2

Thanks the trick was update-grub 2 Works great now!input it where Loepard said to put when I put it after splash my wifi quit working. Update-Grub 2 in the command line made it save!Now maybe my wifi will become permanently stable.

Thanks Works Like A Charm..